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(01-10-2014 02:54 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Now you expect them to open the wallets and give us a million + a year (because that is how much a splash hire is going to cost at least) when we have historically the least amount of support we have ever had.

No, I don't expect them to do it.

(01-09-2014 06:23 PM)Motley Blazer Wrote:  can Ty Longs grandad coach?

I really like the coaches that use these posters and signs with celebrities, caricatures and characters in games when they're play calling ...Ty's Grand Dad, I think would be that kind of coach if he were to ever work a sideline...What a great guy he is!!! If we had 30, 000 more like him, attendance and spirit would never be an issue at UAB. But, he's one of a kind, which makes him all the more special.

(01-10-2014 02:54 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'll be surprised if they allow us to spend what we spent on McGee

I bet they do let us match that, given we got all our financial obligations to McGee taken care of.

I was surprised they let us pay him that much, and that dollar amount is okay. I'd like to see them spring for $800k or $900k. Anything south of a million really isn't that ridiculous.

I like Mark Hudspeth from La Lafayette. Won 3 straight New Orleans bowls and he should think that Birmingham is a step up from the town of Lafayette. Our facilities might be better in some ways too, not counting legion field of course.

(01-10-2014 03:09 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 02:54 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'll be surprised if they allow us to spend what we spent on McGee

I'd like to see them spring for $800k or $900k. Anything south of a million really isn't that ridiculous.

Sometimes you get lucky by putting out crazy theories from Troy fans...then sometimes you put out stuff like this that makes you look clueless.

How long have you been a UAB fan?

(01-10-2014 03:12 PM)GreenHouseGas Wrote:  I like Mark Hudspeth from La Lafayette. Won 3 straight New Orleans bowls and he should think that Birmingham is a step up from the town of Lafayette. Our facilities might be better in some ways too, not counting legion field of course.

Nope ULL has great fan support and updated their stadium recently.

(01-10-2014 03:14 PM)Blazer88 Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:12 PM)GreenHouseGas Wrote:  I like Mark Hudspeth from La Lafayette. Won 3 straight New Orleans bowls and he should think that Birmingham is a step up from the town of Lafayette. Our facilities might be better in some ways too, not counting legion field of course.

Nope ULL has great fan support and updated their stadium recently.

Those fans love that man down there. Did you see the crowd in the Superdome for the bowl game with Tulane? Damn!

(01-10-2014 03:14 PM)Blazer88 Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:12 PM)GreenHouseGas Wrote:  I like Mark Hudspeth from La Lafayette. Won 3 straight New Orleans bowls and he should think that Birmingham is a step up from the town of Lafayette. Our facilities might be better in some ways too, not counting legion field of course.

Nope ULL has great fan support and updated their stadium recently.

It's hilarious to me how warped some UAB fans views are about programs outside of their own. This statement epitomizes that warped view.

No way in hell our facilities are better than ULL's. Even if they were (which they aren't), they have a $115 million dollar Athletics Master Plan, that's right..a master plan just for Athletics that will make sure that doesn't stay the case:

http://ragincajuns.com/custompages/PDF/U..._Final.pdf

(01-10-2014 03:13 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:09 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 02:54 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'll be surprised if they allow us to spend what we spent on McGee

I'd like to see them spring for $800k or $900k. Anything south of a million really isn't that ridiculous.

Sometimes you get lucky by putting out crazy theories from Troy fans...then sometimes you put out stuff like this that makes you look clueless.

How long have you been a UAB fan?

About 2 decades. So you feel that paying a head coach under a million dollars IS ridiculous? I think you like to call me stupid as a lark.

How long have you been a cognizant UAB fan?

(01-10-2014 03:21 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:13 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:09 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 02:54 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'll be surprised if they allow us to spend what we spent on McGee

I'd like to see them spring for $800k or $900k. Anything south of a million really isn't that ridiculous.

Sometimes you get lucky by putting out crazy theories from Troy fans...then sometimes you put out stuff like this that makes you look clueless.

How long have you been a UAB fan?

About 2 decades. So you feel that paying a head coach under a million dollars IS ridiculous? I think you like to call me stupid as a lark.

Paying $800,000-900,000 for a coach at UAB? Yes, that's ridiculous. Ridiculous in that it's not going to happen.

That would make our coach the 2nd high paid coach in C-USA.

And you've been a fan for 2 decades? How old are you, 22 max? I'm talking how long have you lived on your own, worked a full-time job, and paid for your own UAB season tickets and donating your own money to UAB athletics. When you start doing that stuff, you'll see how ridiculous your suggestions are.

(01-10-2014 03:14 PM)Blazer88 Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:12 PM)GreenHouseGas Wrote:  I like Mark Hudspeth from La Lafayette. Won 3 straight New Orleans bowls and he should think that Birmingham is a step up from the town of Lafayette. Our facilities might be better in some ways too, not counting legion field of course.

Nope ULL has great fan support and updated their stadium recently.

According to a spot about their facility development during their TV game several weeks ago, they are embarking on major improvements of several of their facilities costing millions of dollars. It concerns me as a UAB fan that so many of the new conference members - as well as some old ones - are investing so heavily in facilities that we only have "planned".

(01-10-2014 03:13 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  Sometimes you get lucky by putting out crazy theories from Troy fans...

That was absolutely not luck. It was the best move for everybody, career-wise and financially, and it happened. We called it, and you still think I'm stupid.

(01-10-2014 03:24 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:21 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:13 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:09 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 02:54 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'll be surprised if they allow us to spend what we spent on McGee

I'd like to see them spring for $800k or $900k. Anything south of a million really isn't that ridiculous.

Sometimes you get lucky by putting out crazy theories from Troy fans...then sometimes you put out stuff like this that makes you look clueless.

How long have you been a UAB fan?

About 2 decades. So you feel that paying a head coach under a million dollars IS ridiculous? I think you like to call me stupid as a lark.

Paying $800,000-900,000 for a coach at UAB? Yes, that's ridiculous. Ridiculous in that it's not going to happen.

That would make our coach the 2nd high paid coach in C-USA.

And you've been a fan for 2 decades? How old are you, 22 max? I'm talking how long have you lived on your own, worked a full-time job, and paid for your own UAB season tickets and donating your own money to UAB athletics.

Turning 29 in February, but those are a lot of strict requirements for being a fan.

I've met those for only three, but I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. I graduated from UAB when I was 26, so I've only been a real, card-carrying adult for three years. That's one more tally in the stupid column for me.

The fact that we aren't allowed to pay that kind of money is the ridiculous part. If we want to be better than USA and Troy, and hopefully our bar is a little higher than that, it will cost more money than what we are paying right now.

(01-10-2014 03:28 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  The fact that we aren't allowed to pay that kind of money is the ridiculous part. If we want to be better than USA and Troy, and hopefully our bar is a little higher than that, it will cost more money than what we are paying right now.

Again, you don't know what you are talking about.

USA and Troy's head coaches COMBINED make less than $800,000.

UAB paid $200,000+ more for McGee than USA does their coach and at least $60,000 more than Troy pays.

(01-10-2014 03:32 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:28 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  The fact that we aren't allowed to pay that kind of money is the ridiculous part. If we want to be better than USA and Troy, and hopefully our bar is a little higher than that, it will cost more money than what we are paying right now.

Again, you don't know what you are talking about.

USA and Troy's head coaches COMBINED make less than $800,000.

UAB paid $200,000+ more for McGee than USA does their coach and at least $60,000 more than Troy pays.

Okay, what exactly are we aiming for? Do we need to be just slightly better than Troy? Right now, I would take it, because we are not. But if 5 years from now that's all we have to say for ourselves, would you be okay with that?

Louisiana-Lafayette: $800k
Western Kentucky: $855,600
Houston: $900,000
Memphis: $956,779
East Carolina: $1,150,000
Wyoming: $1,200,000

How much longer do you want to be worse than all of them? That's just what is coming from the school, not total compensation.

I wish UaB would, but there isn't a chance in he** that we pay our coach 800k right now. Again, I wish we would, but not a chance.

(01-10-2014 03:43 PM)GreenHouseGas Wrote:  I wish UaB would, but there isn't a chance in he** that we pay our coach 800k right now. Again, I wish we would, but not a chance.

$750k. Final answer. Here's a list. Look at the company we're keeping:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/salaries/

Better yet, if Memphis Blazer is right and we're really going to go lower, look who is below us on that list.

Side note: How about Brian Kelly at Notre Dame? Is that right?

Looks like only one of those schools will be an opponent in the near future.

What we want, what we'd like to do, is not the issue. What do we have the actual dollars to do is. Five wins in the last two years means that our attendance has dwindled. The UAB football program in large part exists out of the UAB president's discretionary fund, not the athletic budget.

So sure, we'd like to hire a million dollar coach, but the reality is that we're going to most likely pay between 300 and 500k, depending on who it is and what their experience is, and whether the guys on the BoT got a little lately and are in a good mood.

That's our reality. It sucks wang, camel wang at that, but there it is. If you have a couple of hundred grand to kick in to sweeten the pot, I'm sure Brian Mackin can find time on his schedule to talk to you.


edit: and if you think that's depressing, do a little research and see what our recruiting budget is. Have your puke bucket nearby when you do, though, you'll want it.